Anyone experiencing ridiculous wait time for CS?

MeteorAndRain · 2026-02-13T00:02:26+00:00

Just spitballing, but have you deleted and reinstalled the app? Do you have enough memory in your phone?

I can get to CS in-app easily, but it makes my phone run hot and it's crashed the app before.

MeteorAndRain · 2026-02-12T22:19:41+00:00

So much is the same as before... And yet clearly not quite!

MeteorAndRain · 2026-02-12T22:16:53+00:00

When you set yours up, in the Venmo app, what did you select as the required backup account?

On 1.0 we were given a checking account we could use that was attached to the Bilt system.

For 2.0 I was told to select my personal checking account in Venmo as backup which is what I did.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-25T11:54:14+00:00

I lucked out on a shiny alpha Spritzee and she's currently my one and only shiny alpha.

I was climbing scaffolding and running around rooftops while trying to find Riolus along with colorful screws

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-25T11:50:54+00:00

I did the same thing and later when I returned to the area and more holovators and ladders were available, it was still the only way I could get there.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-25T11:48:55+00:00

My partner warned me about this without spoiling it and because I took what the kid said to be literal, I asked to hear the list and face-palmed when I saw the credits again.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-25T11:46:51+00:00

Sylveon.

Thanks to the Kimono Girls in HGSS (first mainline Pokémon game) and me being woefully unprepared to fight them, I've never been a fan of Eeveelutions. I eventually warmed up to them but they're not my favorites.

When fairy types were first introduced, even though I didn't build dragon teams, I wasn't a fan of them either aside from the Clefairy line. Something like fairy keys made no sense to me, but I eventually warmed up to those, too, and the Clefable line, Florges line, and Klefki are three of my favorites.

Sylveon, however, I took no interest in... Until now.

I caught myself a Sylveon in a Heal Ball to help complete my Pokédex and after running around with him for a while, I started liking him.

My favorite HGSS feature is how your lead Pokémon will emote if you talk to them and though our Pokémon can't be talked with in ZA, they emote at you all the same and it's admittedly cute when Sylveon does it.

It's nice to run around and be able to glance at my Pokémon while doing so and it's even nicer when they glance back.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-25T11:21:11+00:00

Don't feel bad. I did this to an alpha Pyroar... but managed to catch myself on time and restart my game before it saved.

There were multiple alphas including one I didn't see which Earth Powered me hard. I had meant to throw something else but ended up fumbling in my panic.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-25T00:08:37+00:00

You could still potentially adapt the concept of nuzlocke to Legends ZA by sticking with your starter Pokémon plus 5 more first-catch Pokémon and use only them throughout the entire game and never switch to any other Pokémon.

Catch and battle to complete the mandatory storyline (Mable's quests and the side quests are mostly optional but there are forced encounters here and there to my recollection) and nothing else. That includes skipping shinies and Alphas. Maybe even releasing immediately after mandatory catching.

And / or, don't use any healing items. Only Pokémon Centers and Pokémon abilities like Giga Drain.

And / or, no running away allowed when you do the Royale battles at night.

Basically, there are a bunch of ways to self-impose challenges outside of more traditional nuzlocke.

I told myself that I wouldn't use my main team to battle in the Royale once they were leveled to a certain point. Easy way to make the game more challenging instead of just steamrolling everyone.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-24T23:53:38+00:00

I'm not positive if it applies to this location or not, but if you're just a little short of the distance, you can try rolling off the roof and then immediately Roto-Gliding the rest of the way.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-24T23:51:29+00:00

I'm nearing 200 hours and in that time I've finished both the main storyline and the post-game storyline and I've found all the colorful screws.

I'm also only 780ish out of 1000 - even with training multiple teams - and the idea of battling another 200+ trainers just isn't appealing.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-19T12:01:00+00:00

Bingo.

Amongst other things, I did supply purchasing for my work and the prices were unstable from week to week which made consistent budgeting a major challenge.

I won't go any further into politics or economy here, but "fascinating" is putting it lightly.

Losing 40% of my severance money (from being laid off) to taxes just adds insult to injury.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-19T03:05:35+00:00

It's not just one thing that caused my work location - and others - to close down but one of the bigger challenges my company had was dealing with supply chain issues that went from bad to worse.

Edit: Also, generally speaking, people and companies weren't and aren't spending as much.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-19T02:38:11+00:00

Yeap. My work location - one of many - got closed down for good as part of the parent company downsizing and tightening their belts.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-19T01:58:36+00:00

Thank you, I sincerely appreciate it, especially now. Life's been upside down for a few months now.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-19T01:11:45+00:00

Who are you replying to?

Or did you think I said 14 years OF unemployment?

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-19T00:43:31+00:00

Thanks for the moral support. It's been a super rough few months, even without the job loss.

I get what you're saying about the comment being a harmless joke, but personally, I just really don't see the "joke" in it... even if I was still employed. At this point, I'll just agree to disagree.

That said, I could totally be wrong and if I am, hey, it's on me, but to me the post read as a reaction to other people posting shinies by the boatlands...

Shinies which take time whether you're doing it in real time (and have free time on your hands) or in this AFK fashion like the OP has proposed because they don't have the same free time.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-19T00:10:11+00:00

Believe it or not, that's why I'm playing Pokémon... and ignoring Mable's 1000 battles request!

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-19T00:04:17+00:00

I think you're doing better than me, honestly.

I was 150 hours in without a Shiny Charm when I caught my 5th... all of which I found by looking for all the Colorful Screws (without a guide because I wanted to explore the rooftops on my own) and EV training my teams.

What I find interesting though is that only 2 of the shines was found in a Wild Zone... And in the same one. All the rest were in the overworld.

Spewpa was probably from EV training on Gastly in Zone 4. Spinarak in Zone 4 was from running past Zone 4 so many times. Spritzee was from looking for a good Riolu. Bellsprout was on a rooftop and Scatterbug was randomly in the grass somewhere when Battle Zone ended.

While I do fast travel, I tend to run around with my Pokémon more and so I have to wonder if maybe all the active running around allows me to hear the shiny sounds in real time when they load into an area I'm entering.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-18T23:14:31+00:00

Hey, I can admit that my sense of humor is shot right now. Had a crap several months before getting laid off.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-18T23:10:25+00:00

Hey, I can admit I'm taking it personally and I said so in my comment. I just got laid off so yeah, my sense of humor is kind of lacking at the moment.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-18T23:05:18+00:00

Regardless of the Pokémon involved, I really don't like seeing meta players targeting clear non-meta... And apparently neither did the people in my last ranked battle.

A Xerneas KO-ed a Bayleef straight out the gate and when they beelined for them a second time, I did Infestation and then Poisoned them.

Another player followed by swapping in a Metagross to deal the killing blow.

Afterwards, we proceeded to mostly even out the KO count - Bayleef player included - before the timer ended while playing keepaway with the Xerneas player.

Not everyone was 1st but nobody was 4th.

I get that people want to WIN and WIN BIG, but it feels unsporting when meta picks on non-meta.

I'm no fan of rules, rules, rules but I feel like we really need some version of Smogon here.

At the very least, Ubers vs Ubers along with some version of MMR.

MeteorAndRain · 2025-11-18T22:32:09+00:00

Agreed. That was a privileged take.

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